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Andy Burnham
Labour MP for Leigh

    • Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Andy Burnham voted on key issues since 2001:

    • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
    • Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
    • Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
    • Voted strongly for a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
    • Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
    • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
    • Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
    • Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
    • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
    • Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
    • Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
    • Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Health, Education, Transport, Trade and Industry, Culture Media and Sport

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): NHS: Reorganisation, Cancer, Free Schools, General Practitioners, Car Insurance

    (based on written questions asked by Andy Burnham and answered by departments)

    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

    “The hon. Gentleman’s association with the detail seemed to be loose there; Andrew Dilnot wrote to the Government to say that health spending was lower in real terms in 2010-11 than it was when Labour left government. It is important to point out that the promise the hon. Gentleman stood on was for real-terms increases in every year of this Parliament and that that has not been honoured.”

    Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

    “rose—”

    Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

    “I know that the right hon. Gentleman is very knowledgeable on this subject, but does he believe that councils have sufficient resources to consider new rights, given that we hear that care is collapsing all over the country and the Local Government Association says that if nothing else happens councils will be overwhelmed by the costs of care in less than 10 years?”

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    • Has spoken in 28 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 41 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
    • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
    • Has voted in 55.93% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 72 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
    • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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    • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 877 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
    (b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
    (b) Name of donor: Wigan MBC
    (b) Address of donor: Town Hall, Wigan
    (b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Rent reduction of £2,584 for the year 2012-13 in recognition of my office’s advice giving function.
    (b) Date of receipt: 8 November 2011 and 10 April 2012
    (b) Date of acceptance: 8 November 2011 and 10 April 2012
    (b) Donor status: Metropolitan Borough Council
    (b) (Registered 16 December 2011; updated 23 January 2013)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Sir Joseph Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in 
    Address of donor:  School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell 
    Square, London WC1H 0XG 
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): flights, internal travel, food and three nights’ accommodation, with a total value of £1,100 
    Destination of visit: Israel and Palestinian Territories
    Date of visit:  17-20 September 2012
    Purpose of visit:  delegation to the West Bank with Council for Arab-British Understanding
    (Registered 23 October 2012)
    8. Land and Property
    Flat in London from which rental income is received. (Registered 29 June 2012)

    Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

    View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

    Expenses

    Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.

    Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/05 (ranking out of 659)2003/04 (ranking out of 658)2002/03 (ranking out of 657)2001/02 (ranking out of 657)
    Staying away from main home£12,301 (475th) £10,504 (550th) £13,461 (523rd) £16,147 £18,501 (375th) £20,317 (joint 189th with 1 other) £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) £18,009 (joint 2nd with 55 others)
    London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
    Office running costs£19,766 (230th) £13,860 (496th) £17,602 (494th) £13,279 £19,324 (joint 89th with 9 others) £18,798 (joint 192nd with 12 others) £17,420 (454th) £42,134 (5th)
    Staffing costs£89,969 (449th) £87,563 (328th) £82,954 (375th) £80,555 £68,393 (438th) £62,713 (548th) £58,614 (557th) £32,181 (615th)
    Communications Allowance£993 (574th) £861 (581st) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Travel£8,845 (250th)1 £10,409 (207th)2 £9,607 (234th)3 £8,869 £14,614 (153rd) £13,578 (192nd) £9,020 (375th) £6,712 (383rd)
    Members' Staff Travel£0 £0 £0 £175 £780 (joint 222nd with 1 other) £717 (joint 211th with 1 other) £0 £231 (338th)
    Members' Spouse Travel£1,528 (74th) £368 (243rd) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Family Travel£81 (87th) £27 (108th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Centrally Purchased Stationery£2,322 (468th) £683 (370th) £535 (518th) £739 £771 (369th) £1,252 (168th) £1,178 (262nd) £1,367 (204th)
    Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£2,318 (joint 323rd with 1 other) £1,355 (528th) £1,928 £2,163 (joint 379th with 1 other) £3,935 (171st) N/A N/A
    Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,211 (joint 311th with 1 other) £828 (593rd) £828 £1,938 (joint 224th with 3 others) £1,938 (joint 220th with 3 others) £1,938 (joint 217th with 3 others) £1,938 (joint 207th with 3 others)
    Other Costs£0 £0 £2,947 (34th) £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
    Total£135,805 (496th) £127,804 (553rd) £129,289 (466th) £122,520 £126,484 (266th) £123,248 (243rd) £107,892 (446th) £102,572 (62nd)

    1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £8,845 (59th).

    2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £10,409 (41st).

    3 Car £1,650 (462nd). Rail £7,957 (66th).